Willow Class
Welcome to Willow class. We are a Reception class.
Mrs Bell is the teacher in this class. Mrs Bradley and Mrs Hardy are our teaching assistants.
Summer Term
Useful Information
Our PE day this term is Monday. Please ensure you come to school in outdoor PE kits on this day. Our PE unit for this term is ball skills. We will be learning to control and move a ball using different parts of our feet. We will learn how to be wizard dribblers and how to defend gateways. We will also be learning to move safely and be aware of other people around us.
This half term's learning
In Science we will continue to focus on the seasonal changes and what is happening around us. We will be planting seeds and growing our own plants and caring for the ones in our environment.
In phonics we will be practising reading longer words and compound words and words ending with 'est', 'ed' and 'ing'.
In English our texts this term explore plants, seeds, growing, harvesting and exploring what we can make with what we have grown.
In Maths we will explore grouping and sharing, 2D and 3D shapes, halving and doubling and length.
In Art and DT we will be making vegetable soup, vegetable printing and seed collages.
Dates for your Diary - for this term
Monday 13th April first day of term.
Friday 1st May INSET day - school is closed to pupils.
Thursday 7th May class trip to Matlock Farm Park
Friday 22nd May - last day of term break up for Half term
Useful websites
Websites for Phonics games:
Phonics Play - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Phonic Bloom - https://www.phonicsbloom.com/
Topmarks - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
Letter-join whole school handwriting scheme (letterjoin.co.uk)